Reshaping Fatherhood
, by Dienhart, AnnaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780761909774 | 076190977X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/27/1998
This qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores men's and women's resourcefulness as they create together alternatives to traditional parenting patterns. Narrative accounts show a diversity of possible ways to organize family life so both mothers and fathers can be active in parenting. The many strategies followed by these couples - including tag-team parenting, interchangeability of roles, and division of labor - share a flexibility which challenges the many researchers who are fixated on static models of gendered family life.